Autumn 2013-14 AA Publications Catalogue

AA Publications 2013/14

Contents

AA Publications 2013/14

Introduction .................................................................. 2–3

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New / Forthcoming ................................................... 6–33

Current ...................................................................... 34–49

Bedford Press ........................................................... 50–53

Backlist ...................................................................... 54–55

Customer Orders and Enquiries ................................. 56

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The Architectural Association was established in 1847 and enshrined within its founding charter was the mandate to promote architecture through publications. Today, thanks to the AA’s unique position within the architectural world, AA Publications has become a major architectural publishing house, operating with its own dedicated team of commissioning editors, copy-editors, proof-readers, graphic designers, sales and distribution personnel. Overseen by the office of the director of the AA School, the expertise and autonomy of this group mean that the AA has long been able to independently commission, edit, design, produce, sell and distribute any form of publication, controlling all aspects of the publishing process from the first spark of an idea to the launch of a complete book. Given the self-sufficiency of this team, AA Publications is also able to operate far quicker than any other academic or commercial press, producing finished books within three months of a delivered manuscript, and so able to mirror the AA School’s own long-standing ability to keep pace with the most current and contemporary ideas within architectural culture. Established as the publishing arm of the AA School for over 150 years, AA Publications has more recently looked to increase both the scale and scope of the titles it produces. Whereas a decade ago the AA focused its publication efforts on a handful of books, now AA Publications typically produces more than 20 separate titles

each year, ranging from promoting work that directly emanates from the AA School – in the form of student or staff anthologies, exhibition catalogues or books prompted by specific AA events – to other titles that draw upon both authors and an architectural audience the world over. In 2012/13, the breadth of this publishing ambition can be seen in two new titles in our popular Architecture Words series: Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt by New York critic Mark Rakatansky and Stones Against Diamonds by the Italian/Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi. These were complemented by Venice Takeaway, a catalogue for the British Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale; O-14: Projection and Reception, a monograph of Reiser + Umemoto’s recently completed high-rise in Dubai; Adaptive Ecologies, presenting recent work from the AA’s DRL programme; Drawings that Count, which illustrates 60 drawings from the student work of AA Diploma Unit 15; Lilly Dubowitz’s In Search of a Forgotten Architect, a profile of 1930s Hungarian architect Stefan Sebök; Bricoleur Bricolage, a sequel to the 2010 title An Atlas of Fabrication and again featuring the work of Berlin-based architects Barkow Leibinger; and Fact and Fiction, the third in a trilogy of titles by Pascal Schöning, formerly of AA Diploma Unit 3. In addition to these titles we also produced six new publications from Bedford Press, our own independent imprint, with

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topics ranging from archizines to the afterlives of neo-liberalism, and in 2012/13, as we do each year, we again published two issues of our esteemed and long-running magazine AA Files, perhaps architecture’s premier journal, which continues to promote original and engaging writing on architecture through a rich and eclectic mix of architectural scholarship and ideas from all over the world. For 2013/14 we are looking to further expand on this publishing programme, with plans in place for 25 new titles. Among these will be three additions to our Architecture Words series: Utopia, by eminent historian Anthony Vidler, The House of Light and Entropy by landscape historian Alessandra Ponte and Flash in the Pan by critic and educator Sylvia Lavin. Other titles will include several profiles of AA student and staff work, catalogues for exhibitions on the architect Peter Salter, Spanish practitioners Cero 9 and historical research on prefabricated concrete panel housing systems by Chilean architect Pedro Ignacio Alonso. These books will be further complemented over the course of the coming academic year by publications on the OMA-designed Villa dall’Ava in Saint Cloud, France; an anthology documenting the pioneering IID Summer Sessions launched in 1970 by former AA chairman Alvin Boyarsky; an architectural reappraisal of the artist Dürer by architect Bernard Cache; a cultural history of the undersea titled Memo for Nemo

by writer William Firebrace; a double manifesto for Natural Architecture and Small Architecture by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma; an anthology of the popular AA Files conversations; together with six further Bedford Press titles and two new issues of AA Files. This publishing cycle will run through until the late autumn of 2014 and will culminate with perhaps the single most ambitious publication ever produced by the AA – a two-volume, hardcover, slipcase anthology edited by Samantha Hardingham and presenting the complete works of the hugely influential architect Cedric Price. Produced jointly with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (guardians of the Cedric Price archive) and with the generous co-operation of the Cedric Price Estate, the anthology will hopefully cement Price’s place within the canon of contemporary architecture’s most significant practitioners and at the same time facilitate future scholarship and research on the almost 50 years of his still largely untapped architectural work and ideas.

Brett SteeleDirector, AA School and AA Publications Ltd

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Architecture Words ebooks

The AA’s Architecture Words was established in 2008 as a series of small, accessible books that counter the dominance of images in architecture by promoting the written word, in the form of texts, essays, conversations, interviews, manifestos and other forms of writing by architects, historians and critics. Since its launch the series has proved to be very successful. In response to this success, and in an effort to further disseminate these particular Words, AA Publications is producing ebook versions of the first four books in the series, available in autumn 2013, with the digitisation of the remaining books in the series following soon after. In the future, as the series continues to expand, the launch of each specific physical book will be mirrored by its ebook launch.

Available worldwide on Apple iBookstore and Amazon Kindle. Download the free Kindle reading app to read Kindle books on iOS and other mobile and tablet devices.

Architecture Words 1SupercriticalPeter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Jeffrey Kipnis and Robert Somol978-1-907896-33-0

Architecture Words 2Anti-Object: The Dissolution and Disintegration of ArchitectureKengo Kuma978-1-907896-34-7

Architecture Words 3The Poetics of a Wall ProjectionJan Turnovský978-1-907896-35-4

Architecture Words 4Having WordsDenise Scott Brown978-1-907896-36-1

Architecture Words 5Form, Function, Beauty = Gestalt Max Bill978-1-907896-37-8

Architecture Words 6ProjectilesBernard Cache978-1-907896-58-3

Architecture Words 7Modernity UnboundDetlef Mertins978-1-907896-59-0

Architecture Words 8Tarzans In The Media Forest Toyo Ito978-1-907896-60-6

Architecture Words 9Tectonic Acts of Desire and DoubtMark Rakatansky978-1-907896-61-3

Architecture Words 10UtopiaAnthony Vidler978-1-907-896-55-2

Architecture Words 11The House of Light and EntropyAlessandra Ponte978-1-907896-56-9

Architecture Words 12Stones Against DiamondsLina Bo Bardi978-1-907896-62-0

Architecture Words 13Flash in the PanSylvia Lavin978-1-907896-57-6

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Architecture Words 10Utopia

Anthony Vidler

This instalment of the Architecture Words series is based on five MA presentations at the AA School all on the subject of utopia by Anthony Vidler, professor at the School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, New York City. In these five resulting essays, Vidler presents not a descriptive history of utopias, but a series of questions and problematics that have emerged throughout history when utopian thought, as derived from literary and philosophical genres, has been spatialised by architects and urbanists.

c 160 pp, b/w ills180 x 110 mm, paperback February 2014978-1-907896-16-3£15

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Architecture Words 11The House of Light and Entropy

Alessandra Ponte

Formerly announced as Maps and Territories, this collection of essays written by landscape historian Alessandra Ponte, begins with an investigation of the American obsession with lawns and then continues to collectively map the aesthetic, scientific and technological production of past and present North American landscapes. These include the American desert as a privileged site of scientific and artistic testing; the faraway projects of electrification of the Canadian North; the history of the American lawn; the photographic medium and its encounters with Native Americans; as well as an introductory essay, ‘The Map and the Territory’, written specifically for this volume.

c 200 pp, b/w ills180 x 110 mm, paperback January 2014978-1-907896-17-0£15

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Architecture Words 9–12 Box Set

Architecture Words is a series of texts and essays on architecture written by architects, critics and scholars, with each volume in the series offering the reader texts that distil larger issues and problems. The series itself is ongoing, and with every fourth book published, a quartet of volumes is made available as a limited edition box set.

Limited edition March 2014978-1-907896-46-0£65

Architecture Words 13Flash in the Pan

Sylvia Lavin

In this collection of meditations on what Baudelaire championed (and Michael Fried chastised) as presentness, Lavin investigates the convergence of notions such as liveness, the provisional and the obsolete in revealing qualities of the contemporary. Three sets of essays explore different forms of architectural time, particularly as they shape the differences between history, theory and criticism as genres of writing. The first part focuses on ephemeral architectures in the 1960s, from discos to dioramas. The second takes a more distant view of the field in order to theorise on the central importance of apparently minor practices and ideas – such as curation and colour – to the longstanding structure of the discipline. The third part features essays instigated by current architectural events and developments with an eye towards understanding how they actively participate in the construction of the present.

c 160 pp, b/w ills180 x 110 mm, paperbackFebruary 2014978-1-907896-32-3£15


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AA AgendasScavengers and other Creatures

Edited by Ricardo de Ostos and Nannette Jackowski

With contributions from Lebbeus Woods, Geoff Manaugh, Peter Cook and others

Is the idea of an environment in architecture intrinsically reduced to ‘environmental architecture’, with its data gathering, percentages and product lines, like solar panels and catalogues offering insulation solutions? For Ostos and Jackowski the answer is a resolute no, and instead they seek and endorse an alternative reading of ‘environment’ in which the brutal and lyrical are juxtaposed through a number of visually compelling narrative architectural explorations. This book showcases recent student projects all illustrating this reading, and produced through the AA’s Intermediate Unit 3. These projects are revealed through exuberant designs, drawings, models and renderings, all initially prompted by the extreme geographical contexts visited by the unit, from the Brazilian rainforest to the quarries of northern India. Complementing this visual material, the book also contains essays and interviews with a number of practitioners, including a conversation with the late Lebbeus Woods.

c 176 pp, extensive col & b/w ills 297 x 210 mm, paperbackMarch 2014978-1-907896-47-7c £20

AA AgendasLittle Worlds

Edited by Natasha SandmeierWith essays by Brett Steele, Christopher Pierce,

Charles Arsène-Henry, Robert Somol, Barbara Campbell-Lange and a conversation

with Madelon Vriesendorp

Little Worlds documents three years of conversations and projects in Diploma Unit 9’s ongoing enquiry into context. At a time when architecture is trying to redefine itself, the issue of context – how to collect it, make it, shape it, talk about it, and enter one’s architecture within it – is more pressing than ever. The book pulls together a collection of utterly unique and singular worlds that together argue for a positioning of architecture: not geographically, but rather set within its rich cultural context shaped by real histories and imagined futures. Ultimately, Little Worlds addresses a question all architects face at the beginning of their bright futures – how to shape an identity.

c 350 pp, 297 x 210 mm, paperbackFebruary 2014978-1-907896-53-8c £30

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AA AgendasRituals and Walls:

The Architecture of Sacred SpaceEdited by Pier Vittorio Aureli

and Maria Shéhérazade Giudici

The idea of sacred space has not been considered a relevant topic in recent architecture, a neglect even more pronounced in terms of debates about the city. The texts and projects in this book aim to redress this oversight, and re-open a contemporary understanding of its relevance. The book itself is the result of a year-long investigation developed in the AA’s Diploma Unit 14. It consists of design proposals that range from a multi-faith school in Strasbourg to the reconstruction of a festival hall in the city of Xian, China; from a Jesuit monastery in Detroit to a women’s Islamic centre in Paris. Each proposal is introduced by critical texts that analyse the political and ideological meaning of religious architecture. The book is complemented by essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Maria Shéhérazade Giudici and Hamed Khosravi that focus on the relationship between forms of worship and architecture, and argue that within sacred space form must follow function – in other words, architectural space must adhere to the rituals through which the sacred is enacted, and that the meaning of sacred space goes far beyond the stereotypes of contemplation and spirituality, and instead align with the political and social ethos of the city.

c 250 pp, extensive col & b/w ills230 x 230 mm, paperbackMarch 2014ISBNc £30

Net Works: An Atlas of Connective and Distributive Intelligence in Architecture

Edited by Brett Steele and Francisco González de Canales

Net Works is the second volume of a trilogy by Brett Steele and Francisco González de Canales exploring the changing conditions of architecture in relation to modern technologies and experimentation. The book surveys the relationship between architecture and networks – as a way of thinking, as an organisational diagram and as a pedagogical tool. The atlas documents a longer and deeper history of the modern connective intelligence in architecture. The aim of this book is to unfold the genealogy of the engagement by architects with the network and machines of modern architectural life, showcased by more than 100 paradigmatic examples, presenting a pre-history of today’s architectural cultures.

c 360 pp, extensive col & b/w ills297 x 210 mm, hardcoverMarch 2014978-1-907896-14-9£40


AA Diploma Honours 2013

Since the founding of the AA Diploma degree almost a century ago, the AA has awarded a special prize each year to the student or students whose graduating project offers work of an exceptionally high standard. The resulting Diploma Honours projects are then traditionally exhibited at the AA at the start of the following academic year. To commemorate this ritual, this new annual series will be published in tandem with the AA exhibition, and in addition to the design projects themselves (this year by four students: Friedrich Gräfling, Ja Kyung Kim, Mond Qu and Antoine Vaxelaire), the book contains a short commentary by each of the students’ AA tutors.

100 pp, 230 x 150 mm, paperbackOctober 2013978-1-907896-40-8£10

Third NaturesCristina Diaz Moreno and Efrén Garcia Grinda

With contributions from Yuko Hasegawa, Olafur Eliasson, Diedrich Diederichsen and others

Published in tandem with an exhibition of the same title at the AA School of Architecture in January 2014, Third Natures presents the work and ideas of Spanish architects Cristina Diaz Moreno and Efrén Garcia Grinda and their Madrid-based studio AMID.cero9. The book itself has been conceived in the form of an micropaedia – that is, a condensed version of a classical encyclopaedia, but like its larger progenitor, the structure of its content will be arranged alphabetically, as a dictionary of terms that collectively represent architecture’s Third Nature. Among this glossary will be descriptions – both long and short, and written by both the authors and invited guests – of a number of terms, among them Breathable, After Pop and Intentional Communities. Imbedded into each alphabetic entry will also appear an assortment of images – some drawn from a wide spectrum of reference images, others deriving from specific projects by AMID.cero9. The result is a constellation of objects and ideas that in its form as much as its content presents an accumulative way of comprehending the world.

c 250 pp, extensive col & b/w ills240 x 340 mm, paperbackJanuary 2014978-1-907896-48-4c £35

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Walmer Yard, Peter SalterEdited by Will Hunter

With essays by Niall Hobhouse, Niall McLaughlin, Peter Salter and Ellis Woodman

As a teacher at the AA and elsewhere, Peter Salter has been a hugely influential figure in architectural education over the last 30 years, while his drawings have inspired generations of students, and yet they are remarkably hard to find in print. Reconciling this peculiar absence, this richly illustrated book brings together all the design material relating to a single project: a high-density development of four houses on a tight and irregular site in west London. As his first completed building in Britain, the project makes physical for the first time the ideas and family of forms that Salter has been evolving over his long career. To be published on the building’s completion, and in tandem with an AA exhibition, the book tracks the design’s complex evolution from the drawing board through to its long-awaited realisation.

c 250 pp, col & b/w ills297 x 210 mm, paperbackFebruary 2014978-1-907896-44-6c £30

PanelPedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola

Although largely marginal within official accounts of modern architecture, during the second half of the twentieth century the development of large concrete panel systems was central to debates about architecture’s modernisation and industrialisation. Through this development, not only was construction transferred from the building site to the factory floor, and manual labour succeeded by automated mass production, but political, aesthetic and ideological debates began to inscribe themselves onto the panel itself, a symbol for a whole new set of architectural values. Distributed and adapted to many different cultural, geographical and political contexts, these systems went beyond national borders in producing more than 170 million apartments worldwide. This book focuses on a particular aspect of this history, namely those systems exported from Soviet Russia into Cuba and then on to Chile in the 1960s and 1970s. Written from the point of view of the worker as much as the architect, and containing an incredible visual panoply of archival photographs, stills, cartoons, sketches and drawings, as well as oral histories from its surviving protagonists, the book offers a fascinating portrait of an architectural and political history whose symbolic and physical register all along is a concrete panel.

c 300 pp, col and b/w ills260 x 200 mm, paperbackMay 2014978-1-907896-49-1c £30


Colquhounery: Alan Colquhoun from Bricolage to Myth

Edited by Irina DavidoviciWith texts by Mary McLeod, Robert Maxwell,

Jacques Gubler, Kenneth Frampton, Edward Jones, Tony Fretton, Inderbir Singh Riar, Stanislaus von Moos, Barbara Weiss and others

Colquhounery is a commemorative volume celebrating the life and work of the architect and architectural historian Alan Colquhoun, who died in December 2012. Testimonials from friends, colleagues and students are gathered together alongside original photographs, sketches, letter transcripts, biographical and archival data tracing Colquhoun’s career as an architect, writer and educator on both sides of the Atlantic. Launched in tandem with a celebratory AA event, this anthology represents a collective effort to remember the work and the man responsible for some of the most penetrating and clear-sighted architectural criticism of the last 60 years.

c 200 pp, col & b/w ills260 x 200mm, paperbackFebruary 2014978-1-907896-52-1c £25

IID Summer Sessions DossierEdited and with an introduction by Irene Sunwoo

This book is the first to document the remarkable history of the International Institute of Design (IID), an independent school of architecture founded and directed by Alvin Boyarsky from 1970 to 1972, and highlights a pivotal episode in Boyarsky’s career, who is best known for his subsequent role as chairman of the Architectural Association (1971–90). Launched in the wake of the institutional upheavals that had swept schools of architecture during the late 1960s, the IID critically introduced an alternative model of architectural education: one that culled an international assortment of teaching methods, design strategies, theories and projects. The IID’s main preoccupation was the organisation of three Summer Sessions, during which students and participants from over 40 different countries gathered in London to take part in a dense programme of specialised workshops, seminars and lectures. Topics ranged from cybernetics to vernacular housing traditions in Africa, from the legacy of Le Corbusier to the work of the Italian Radicals. Among many others, its contributors included Archigram, Reyner Banham, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Yona Friedman, John Habraken, Hans Hollein, Charles Jencks, Missing Link, Gordon Pask, Cedric Price, Colin Rowe, Superstudio and Bernard Tschumi. Detailing how this shortlived yet seminal experiment in architectural education crystallised an international network of architects and discourses, the book makes available a rich trove of previously unpublished material – visual, textual and aural – from Boyarsky’s personal archive in London.

c 192pp, extensive col & b/w ills240 x 310mm, paperbackMay 2014978-1-907896-45-3c £30

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Autobiography of a House: The Birth and Life of the Villa dall’Ava

Edited by Laure BoudetWith texts by Dominique Boudet

Arranged in strict chronological order, this book collates together every available note, sketch, letter, fax, family snapshot, postcard, contract, email, complaint, rendering, drawing and photograph generated through the commissioning, design and construction of the Villa dall’Ava in Saint Cloud, just west of Paris. Designed by the then relatively unknown architect Rem Koolhaas and OMA, and completed in 1991, the book shows how the identity of its designer only emerged after initial visits that began in the mid 1960s to other notable buildings, from Palladio and Le Corbusier through to Kazuo Shinohara and Peter Eisenman. The result is a compelling visual book of evidence charting the emergence of one of contemporary architecture’s most significant buildings.

c 250 pp, col & b/w ills240 x 310 mm, paperbackMay 2014978-1-907896-50-7c £25

Memo for NemoWilliam Firebrace

Memo for Nemo is an account of the human inhabitation of the undersea, in fact and fiction. It takes as its starting point Jules Verne’s novel Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, with the Nautilus submarine and its captain Nemo – inventor, explorer, oceanologist, gastronome, musician and terrorist. The undersea is examined as a zone created both by exploration and invention, from the earliest attempts to photograph and descend into the depths with deep-sea devices, through the 1960s experiments and actual inhabitation, such as the US Sealab and Cousteau’s Conshelf, to contemporary remote surveillance of the rapidly changing oceans. This actual history is paralleled and subverted by a fictitious history of films such as The Abyss, The Life Aquatic, Das Boot, Bioshock, Yellow Submarine, Fantastic Voyage and other hallucinogenic delights. This book is the second title in a planned trilogy of books each exploring specific coastal and aquatic terrains. The first book was Marseille Mix (2010) and the final part will be Hop Baltic (2015).

c 250 pp, col & b/w ills 225 x 140 mm, paperbackApril 2014978-1-907896-54-5c £20


Small Architecture / Natural Architecture Kengo Kuma

Translated by Alfred BirnbaumWith an introduction by Thomas Daniell

This book combines two extended essays by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, which together provide an overview of his key built works and a summation of his ideas about architecture, developed over the course of his career to date. Originally published as two smaller books, and until now only available in Japanese, this edition comprises a lucid theoretical manifesto for humble, sustainable architecture sensitive to materials and to place. The writing has a particular poignancy in the wake of the 2011 tsunami that devastated parts of northern Japan.

c 250 pp, b/w ills200 x 120 mm, paperbackFebruary 2014978-1-907896-51-4c £20

Dogma: 11 ProjectsPier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara

With an introduction by Brett Steele and afterword by Gabriele Mastrigli

Over the past ten years the Brussels-based architectural studio Dogma, founded and led by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara, has focused almost exclusively on large-scale projects and citywide interventions. These projects venture beyond mere physical size to expand conceptual frameworks and radically rethink what it is to produce an architectural project, in the process challenging the very discipline itself. This book, and its accompanying AA exhibition, explores 11 works developed since 2002 that collectively present the Dogma ethos: to see the urban project as a comprehensive domain in which architectural form, the political and the city are reclaimed as one ‘field’. Mobilising and reinvigorating both drawing and text – the quintessential tools of architecture – these 11 projects range from speculative and theoretical proposals to investigations that question today’s modes of housing.

120 pp, 280 x 232 mm, paperbackMarch 2013978-1-907896-30-9£25

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AA Files

AA Files is the Architectural Association’s journal of record. Launched in 1981 by the AA School’s then chairman Alvin Boyarsky, the journal appears twice a year and is sent out to members of the Architectural Association, individual subscribers and is distributed to a global network of bookshops. Currently under the editorship of Thomas Weaver, AA Files looks to promote original and engaging writing on architecture. It does this by drawing on the AA School’s own academic research, lecture programme, exhibitions and events, as well as a rich and eclectic mix of architectural scholarship from all over the world.

Shortlisted for the Design Museum, Designs of the Year Award, 2012

By annual subscription: UK £32, overseas £33 inc. P&P

Back issues (nos 1–60) – subject to availability – at £6 each. More recent issues(nos 61–66) are available at £15 each

AA Files ConversationsEdited and with an introduction

by Thomas Weaver

Compiled by AA Files editor Thomas Weaver, this volume – the first in an anticipated series of similar anthologies – collates conversations from the past ten issues of AA Files. The format of these conversations was established with the relaunch of the journal with issue 57, and includes extended interviews with architects including Léon Krier, John Winter and Mario Botta; artists Richard Wentworth and François Dallegret; the historian Robin Middleton; photographer Hilla Becher; filmmaker Sally Potter and numerous others.

c 416 pp, b/w ills176 x 108 mm, paperbackNovember 2013978-1-907896-41-5c £15


AA Files 68

Features essays by the academic Vittoria di Palma on architecture and gastronomy, the writer Gillian Darley on John Summerson, the urban historian Elena Cogato-Lanza on Maurice Braillard, the French historian Nicolas Courtin on the Parisian Hôtel Particulier, architects Florian Beigel and Philip Christou on architectural translations, historian James D Graham on Le Corbusier and Eric Satie, and a conversation between Thomas Daniell and Arata Isozaki.

160 pp, col & b/w ills297 x 245 mmApril 2014ISSN 0261 6823ISBN 978-1-907896-39-2£15

AA Files 67

Features essays by the historian Georges Teyssot on the history of the line, the writer Elizabeth Wilson on haunted houses, the curator Andrea Friedericksen on Turner and perspective, the architect François Charbonnet on his Swiss studio teaching, the academic Will McLean on Dante Bini, the historians Peter Carl and Irena Murray on Le Corbusier’s Baghdad voiles, and a conversation between architectural historian Mark Swenarton and architect Neave Brown.

160 pp, col & b/w ills297 x 245 mmNovember 2013ISSN 0261 6823ISBN 978-1-907896-38-5£15


AA Book 2013 ebookAvailable on the iBookstore

Initiating the first ebook version of the AA’s long-established end-of-year anthology, the digital AA Book 2013 offers an overview of the AA’s 2012/13 academic year. Extending the physical book, this anthology features hundreds of drawings, models, installations, photographs and other material documenting the world’s most international and experimental school of architecture.

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AA Book: Projects Review 2013

AA Book: Projects Review offers an overview of the AA’s 2012/13 academic year. Accompanying the school’s end-of-year show, the book features hundreds of drawings, models, installations, photographs and other materials documenting the world’s most international and experimental school of architecture.

Two vols (304 pp and 192pp) extensive col & b/w ills249 x 170 mm, paperbackJune 20130265-4644 978-1-907896-31-6£25

Back issues also available:

AA Book: Projects Review 2012376 pp, extensive col & b/w ills249 x 170 mm, paperbackJune 2012978-1-907896-22-4£25

AA Book: Projects Review 2011380 pp, extensive col & b/w ills249 x 170 mm, paperbackJune 2011978-1-907896-10-1£20

AA Book: Projects Review 2010334 pp, extensive col & b/w ills 249 x 170 mm, paperback July 2010 978-1-902902-93-7 £15


A Forward-minded Retrospective: Cedric Price Works 1958–2003Edited by Samantha Hardingham

Published in two volumes, and in conjunction with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal, this forthcoming publication will bring together for the first time all of the projects (volume one) and writings (volume two) by British architect Cedric Price (1934–2003). A chronological arrangement will place the work in the context of the immediate postwar period in England in which Price grew up, illuminating how cultural, social and political factors conditioned the work from the outset, and then subsequently shaped its development as his practice changed throughout the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Full project descriptions will be set alongside a careful selection of illustrations, many previously unpublished – from conceptual sketches through to presentation drawings and related artefacts. The content material is drawn directly from the original work, now largely held in the Cedric Price Fonds at the CCA, as well as a few private collections – the culmination of ten years of study by author/editor Samantha Hardingham. The books aim to present the munificence of Price: thinker, philosopher, artist and unparalleled raconteur – a thoroughly modern-traditionalist.

Two vols (c 500 pp and 300 pp), col & b/w ills 297 x 210 mm, hardcover, slipcaseAutumn 2014978-1-907896-43-9c £75

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Fact and FictionEdited by Rubens Azevedo and Julian Löffler

With an afterword by Pascal Schöning

Fact and Fiction is the last volume of a trilogy of books seeking to document the work, events and spirit of AA Diploma Unit 3, run by Pascal Schöning from 1993 to 2008 and its experimental project Cinematic Architecture.

80 pp, col & b/w ills180 x 180 mm, paperback November 2012978-1-907896-27-9£10

Bricoleur BricolageFrank Barkow

Prompted by the art historian Hal Foster’s recent description of Barkow Leibinger as ‘bricoleurs as much as they are engineers’, Bricoleur Bricolage presents an overview of Barkow Leibinger’s recent work, largely through their recently completed Tour Total building in Berlin.

222 pp, extensive col & b/w ills210 x 297 mm, paperbackJune 2013978-1-907896-29-3£15

O-14: Projection and ReceptionReiser + Umemoto

Edited by Brett SteeleWith essays by Jesse Reiser, Brett Steele,

Jeffrey Kipnis, Sylvia Lavin and Sanford Kwinter

O-14: Projection and Reception explores the groundbreaking exo-skeleton office tower in Dubai designed by New York-based architects, Reiser+Umemoto. This monograph will not only provide exhaustive documentation of O-14’s design and construction but delves further into the complex interrelationships this architectural model weaves between technology, expression and politics in the context of the ‘nowhere place’ of the global city. The book is both an account of a design’s realisation and a manifesto, and contains Jesse Reiser’s explanatory and theoretical texts on the tower as well as a number of critical essays.

288 pp, extensive col & b/w ills198 x 190 mm, hardcover November 2012978-1-907896-08-8£40

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Venice Takeaway: Ideas to Change British ArchitectureWith essays by Patrik Schumacher,

Vicky Richardson and Vanessa Norwood

Venice Takeaway brings together the research of ten architectural teams exhibiting in the British Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale. Charting a course that takes in Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, Thailand and the USA, the catalogue presents images and essays by the teams who travelled the world to seek imaginative responses to universal issues and explore the common ground of architecture.

208 pp, col & b/w ills230 x 170 mm, paperbackSeptember 2012978-1-907896-24-8£18

Adaptive Ecologies: Correlated Systems of Living

Edited by Theodore SpyropoulosWith essays by Patrik Schumacher, Mark Burry,

Brett Steele and John Frazer

Recent architecture has found itself having to cope with new social and cultural complexities that demand networked systems that are time- based, reconfigurable and evolutionary, and a corresponding model of urbanism defined as an adaptive ecology. It is against this backdrop that the AA’s graduate Design Research Lab (DRL) has pursued its recent studio agenda through project-based research focusing on alternative models of housing. Integral to this research is a notion of architecture that looks towards designing systems that seek higher ordered goals emerging through an intimate correlation of material and computational interaction. This book presents the results of this research and with it constructs a generative view of space and structure and the exploration of behaviour-based models of living through patterns found in nature.

336 pp, extensive col & b/w ills240 x 184 mm, hardcoverMay 2013978-1-907896-13-2£30

One Million Acres and No Zoning Lars Lerup

With an introduction by Edward Dimendberg

Routinely dismissed as ‘mere sprawl’, the suburban city is the black hole of recent urbanism, absorbing human energy and resources but seldom revealing the principles of its operation. For the past 20 years Lars Lerup has explored Houston as its prototype. In this book he broadly approaches this complex conurbation so as to develop a vocabulary to interpret its urban forms. Loved by its inhabitants, defined by huge potential and difficult problems, Lerup’s Houston is a test-case for twenty-first-century urbanism and our understanding of unregulated cities everywhere. 272 pp, extensive col ills 250 x 175 mm, hardcover May 2011 978-1-907896-04-0 £22

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GOD & CO: François Dallegret Beyond the Bubble

Edited by Alessandra Ponte, Laurent Stalder and Thomas Weaver

GOD & CO was published to accompany the exhibition of the work of the French Montreal-based artist and architect François Dallegret (1937–). Dallegret’s own life and work denies anything so predictable as a neat synopsis, but in essence his work, beginning in Paris in the late 1950s and early 60s, and later taking in New York and Montreal, absorbs everything from intricate line drawings for a series of astrological vehicles and designs for a number of machines (from those that assist in cooking a meal to others that generate literature) to the ‘A Home Is Not a House’ collaboration with the critic Reyner Banham; a drugstore/gallery in Montreal; proposals for a new Montreal Palais Metro; designs for chairs, more cars and yet more machines; a film collaborative set up to shoot a western; contributions to the Montreal 67 Expo; engraved bars of soap; subversive credit cards; ‘ironique’ villas and light installations. The book illustrates a great many of Dallegret’s works and contain texts, essays and conversations by Alessandra Ponte, Laurent Stalder and Thomas Weaver.

384 pp, extensive col & b/w ills248 x 160 mm, paperbackNovember 2011978-1-907896-18-7£30

In Search of a Forgotten ArchitectLilly Dubowitz

With essays by Éva Forgács and Richard Anderson

Stefan Sebök was a Hungarian-born architect who worked with Walter Gropius in the late 1920s, and then with fellow Hungarian László Moholy-Nagy on his famous Light Prop, and later still moved to the Soviet Union to work with Ginzburg, the Vesnin brothers and El Lissitzky. In between he carried out numerous projects of his own and found himself central to a key generation of emerging modern architects in Dresden, Berlin and Moscow. Details of this life are revealed through this book written by Sebök’s niece, Lilly Dubowitz, who meticulously pieces together clues and details of her uncle’s life and work as if like an architectural detective. This text is accompanied not only by numerous illustrations of Sebök’s design work but by essays on the Hungarian and Soviet context by historians Éva Forgács and Richard Anderson.

216 pp, extensive col & b/w ills260 x 200 mm, paperback August 2012978-1-907896-21-7£30

Manifest Destiny: A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban Housing

Jason Griffiths With an afterword by Martino Stierli

On 18 October 2002 Jason Griffiths and Alex Gino set out to explore the American suburbs. Over 178 days they drove 22,382 miles, made 134 suburban house calls and took 2,593 photographs. In Manifest Destiny, Griffiths reveals the results of this exploration. Structured through 58 short chapters, the anthology offers an architectural pattern book of suburban conditions all focused not on the unique or specific but the placeless. These chapters are complemented by an introduction by Griffiths and an afterword by Swiss architectural historian Martino Stierli. Recipient of a DAM Architectural Book Award 2011.

144 pp, extensive col ills 220 x 170 mm, hardcover August 2011 978-1-907896-05-7 £18

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Marseille MixWilliam Firebrace

Marseille Mix describes the city of Marseille, its culture, buildings, gastronomy, cinematic images, history, planning, language, music, detective stories, criminology. These aspects of the city interrelate and overlap to create a complex ever shifting image. Marseille lies on the edge of Europe, separated from the rest of France by a circle of high mountains. Once one of the busiest ports in the world, its harbour is now largely empty. With its sea-trade almost abandoned, Marseille has lost its traditional purpose. It is like a sea creature marooned on the land, uncertain as to whether to settle or move on. In seven chapters (in reference to the seven hills surrounding Marseille and the seven seas to the south) the book uses various forms of writing – essay, narrative, description, list, recipe, glossary, conversation – to examine the city and investigate its defining mix.

248 pp, 225 x 140 mm paperback October 2010978-1-902902-95-1£18

Working in SeriesChristopher C M Lee and

Kapil Gupta / Serie Architects

Divided into three sections – Ceiling/Vaults, Plan/Circles and Facade/Grids – Working in Series presents a number of recent projects by the London-based architectural practice Serie, led by Christopher C M Lee and Kapil Gupta, and also featuring essay contributions from Sam Jacoby, Laurence Liauw and Brett Steele.

160 pp, extensive col & b/w ills250 x 220 mm, flexicoverOctober 2010978-1-902902-98-2£20

Space as MembraneSiegfried Ebeling

Translated by Pamela Johnston and Anna Kathryn Schoefert

With essays by Walter Scheiffele and Spyros Papapetros

Read and praised by Mies van der Rohe, denounced by Walter Gropius and presaging some of the technological innovations introduced across the Atlantic by Buckminster Fuller, ‘Space as Membrane’, written by former Bauhaus student, architect and cosmological theorist Siegfried Ebeling, has been the subject of a number of recent commentaries, yet the text itself remains unread, due mainly to the scarcity of the original publication. This is the first English translation of Ebeling’s original treatise, as well as the first contemporary edition of the text in any language. The book includes the full 1926 text by Ebeling, supplemented by critical essays by Walter Scheiffele and Spyros Papapetros with original drawings by Ebeling, as well as a brief biography of the German architect.

68 pp, col & b/w ills270 x 220 mm, paperbackOctober 2010 978-1-902902-92-0£15

Double or Nothing: 51N4E 51N4E

51N4E is a Brussels-based architectural practice led by Johan Anrys, Freek Persyn and Peter Swinnen. Founded in 1998, it has drawn increasing attention and renown through projects for the C-mine cultural centre in Genk, the Groeningemuseum and the TID Tower and Skanderbeg Square both in Tirana, Albania. This book, accompanying an exhibition on the practice at the Architectural Association, features these and 17 other projects alongside essays by Lars Lerup, Dominique Boudet and Stefan Devoldere. Winner British Book Design and Production Award 2011.

352 pp, extensive col & b/w ills303 x 215 mm, hardcoverJune 2011978-1-907896-09-5£25

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Architecture Words 12Stones Against Diamonds

Lina Bo BardiWith an introduction by Silvana Rubino

Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) was a prolific architect, designer and thinker, whose work, absorbing her native Italy and then after 1946 her adopted homeland, Brazil, spans across architecture, furniture, stage and costume design, urban planning, curatorial work, teaching and writing. This collection of essays is the first-ever English anthology of her writings. It includes texts written when she was still living in Italy as well as later contributions to a number of Brazilian newspapers, journals and magazines. An acute critic and a creative thinker, Bo Bardi proposes a series of new parameters for design thinking and practice. Presented collectively, her texts present a wealth of inspirational thoughts articulated in a refreshingly simple, straightforward fashion.

132 pp, b/w ills180 x 110 mm, paperback January 2013978-1-907896-20-0£15


Architecture Words 9Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt

Mark Rakatansky

This collection of essays proposes a framework for architecture to enact the complex tectonic dramas of social and cultural space. Following its title, the book is arrayed in three sections: Tectonic, Acts of, Desire and Doubt. In each, Rakatansky covers a series of subjects in a voice that varies from the third-person narrative of the scholarly essay to the transcript of an email exchange with Sarah Whiting discussing recent books by Greg Lynn. Transformational performances of architectural identity are explored in discussions of fabrication, building envelopes, animation, migrancy, and in readings into the works of Louis Kahn, Robin Evans, John Coltrane, Giulio Romano and Andrea Palladio.

288 pp, b/w ills180 x 110 mm, paperback September 2012978-1-907896-15-6£15


Architecture Words 8Tarzans In The Media Forest

Toyo ItoWith an introduction by Thomas Daniell

This book publishes for the first time in English a collection of architectural writings and essays by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito. Born in 1941, Ito is one of the world’s most innovative architects. The texts in this collection cover almost exactly 40 years of writing and feature famous essays as well as previously untranslated writings that shed new light on Ito’s relationship to evolving patterns of architectural thinking and design.

188 pp, b/w ills180 x 110 mm, paperbackApril 2011 978-1-902902-90-6 £12


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Architecture Words 7Modernity Unbound

Detlef Mertins

Collected from over 20 years, these essays elaborate on such key modernist tropes as transparency, glass architecture, organicism, life and event, sameness and difference. Previously published in a variety of different venues, they are now assembled for the first time in this volume.

200 pp, b/w ills180 x 110 mm, paperbackFebruary 2011 978-1-902902-89-0£12


Architecture Words 6Projectiles

Bernard CacheWith an introduction by Mario Carpo

Translated by Clare Barrett and Pamela Johnston

Bernard Cache is the principal of the Paris-based practice Objectile and a noted theorist of geometry and computational ontology. He formulated his concept of ‘non-standard architecture’ in his 1995 book Earth Moves, a concept that was given the name ‘objectile’ by Gilles Deleuze in his book on the philosopher Leibniz, The Fold. This collection of eight essays brings together a number of key texts by Cache, including his 1999 ‘Plea for Euclid’ and more recent writing commissioned especially for this collection, including ‘Vitruvius Machinator Terminator’.

144 pp, b/w ills180 x 110 mm, paperbackMay 2011 978-1-902902-88-3£12


Architecture Words 5Form, Function, Beauty = Gestalt

Max BillWith an introduction by Karin Gimmi

Translated by Pamela Johnston and Clare Barrett

Max Bill (1904–94) – a product of the Bauhaus at Dessau, pupil of Walter Gropius, Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee – was a virtuoso designer whose work overleaped disciplinary boundaries, encompassing architecture, painting, sculpture, industrial and graphic design, as well as education. What unites all the work is a clarity and precision of expression. Through both his designs and his writings Max Bill has long been a major figure of reference in the German-speaking world. This collection makes many of his key texts available in English for the first time.

256 pp, b/w ills180 x 110 mm, paperbackMay 2010978-1-902902-85-2£12


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Architecture Words 4Having Words

Denise Scott Brown

Having Words collects together ten essays by the architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown. The essays extend from her 1969 text, ‘On Pop Art, Permissiveness and Planning’ to ‘Towards an Active Socioplastics’ from 2007, which offers an overview of Scott Brown’s education and the gestation of her key architectural and urban ideas. The collection is bookended by two additional texts by Scott Brown, a foreword and an afterword, addressing specifically the act of writing about architecture.

160 pp180 x 110 mm, paperbackMay 2009978-1-902902-70-8£12

ebook available soon on iBookstore and AmazonSee p4 978-1-907896-36-1

Architecture Words 2Anti-Object: The Dissolution and Disintegration

of ArchitectureKengo Kuma

Translated by Hiroshi Watanabe

In Anti-Object, Kengo Kuma argues that the dissolution and disintegration of architecture is not only desirable but possible. His approach is illustrated with a discussion of works by his office in which he has sought, by various tactics, to avoid objectification. The ideas embodied in these diverse projects have much in common with the Japanese tradition, not of ‘monuments’, but of ‘weaker’ buildings characterised by their use of natural light and natural materials.

152 pp, b/w ills180 x 110 mm, paperbackOctober 2008978-1-902902-52-4£12


Architecture Words 1Supercritical

Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Jeffrey Kipnis and Robert Somol

Supercritical is based on an evening of conversation between Peter Eisenman and Rem Koolhaas at the AA in 2006. Each architect states his views about the terms of architecture, including its theories and relationship to the city and other forms of critical and cultural practice. Responses from the audience follow, filtered through a debate moderated by Brett Steele.

160 pp, b/w ills180 x 110 mm, paperbackDecember 2009978-1-902902-51-7£12


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AA Agendas 12Drawings that Count

Edited by Francesca Hughes With an interview with Mary Beard and essays

by Noam Andrews and David Edgerton

No architectural category is more fickle or more artificial than ‘context’. This collection of 60 large drawings produced over five years by AA Diploma 15 addresses the construction of context by architecture for its own very particular purposes. A self-declared ‘render-free zone’, the unit’s interrogations of architecture’s seminal sites (antiquity, technology, the future and its proxies) examine the role of figuration and the exclusion of indeterminacy in the always already mediated question of context. Through the quiet business of counting, these line drawings – against the double ascendancy of parametricisation and the glossy rendered perspective – question architecture’s ambivalent relations to the artifice it installs between itself and the outside world.

176 pp, extensive col & b/w ills 220 x 220 mm, paperback April 2013978-1-907896-26-2£20

AA Agendas 10London +10

Carlos Villanueva Brandt

London +10 focuses on London over the last 20 years, interpreting it as a ‘live city’ and speculating on the relationship between the live realm of the city and its urban fabric. In parallel to this central topic, the book includes a number of speculative projects carried out by the AA’s Diploma Unit 10 that have attempted to integrate this realm into the design of alternative urban strategies. A series of essays by contributors including the writer Will Self and the journalist Rowan Moore provides an overview of London, questioning and celebrating the city and generating possible scenarios for its future.

340 pp, extensive col & b/w ills253 x 187 mm, paperback February 2010978-1-902902-83-8£30

AA Agendas 9 Making Pavilions

Edited by Martin Self and Charles Walker

Over the past four years the students of the Architectural Association’s Intermediate Unit 2 have designed and built a series of experimental pavilions. Structured to follow a year in the life of the unit, this book presents the processes of the pavilions’ design and production, from concept ideas to workshop fabrication. Essays by the unit’s tutors, Charles Walker and Martin Self, explain the ambitions and pedagogic basis of the programme, rooted in the idea of learning through experience. The educational validity of this innovative design-build programme and its architectural output were explored through the voices of students, tutors and anonymous critics.

184 pp, extensive col & b/w ills 249 x 170 mm, paperback March 2011978-1-902902-82-1 £15

AA Agendas 8 Nine Problems in the Form of a Pavilion

Edited by Yusuke Obuchi and Alan Dempsey

This book recounts the story of the creation of the DRL Ten Pavilion illustrating the design, development and assembly processes as well as the structure’s place within the evolving teaching methodologies of the DRL as a whole.

144 pp, extensive col & b/w ills 249 x 170 mm, paperback October 2010 978-1-902902-73-9 £15

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Bedford Press was initiated by the Architectural Association in 2008 as a publishing imprint that seeks to develop contemporary models of publication practice, building upon the AA’s renowned legacy of independent publishing. As an imprint of AA Publications, Bedford Press publishes books at the intersection of architecture, visual art, graphic design and theory. Bedford Press draws on the cultural activity of the AA but also seeks to broaden this discourse through collaborations and partnerships with institutions, arts organisations and individuals.

ebook seriesCivic City Cahiers

Edited by Jesko Fezer & Matthias Görlich

The Civic City Cahiers are the first in the Architectural Association’s new series of ebooks. The Civic City Cahiers provide material for a critical discussion about the role of design for a new social city, presenting short monographic texts by authors who specialise in urban and design theory and practice, including Gui Bonsiepe, Neil Brenner, Jesko Fezer, Tom Holert, Margit Mayer, Jamie Peck, Erik Swyngedouw and Nik Theodore. The full series of six cahiers is now available in ebook format, including the out-of-print editions 1 and 2.

Available worldwide on Apple iBookstore and Amazon Kindle. Download the free Kindle reading app to read Kindle books on iOS and other mobile and tablet devices.

Purchase through the Bedford Press website:www.bedfordpress.org/ebooks/civic-city-ebooksFrom £4.94

Contestations: Learning From Critical Experiments in Education

Edited by Tim Ivison & Tom VandeputteContributions by Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi,

Sean Dockray, Jakob Jakobsen, Nils Norman, Gregory Sholette and Ultra-red

Contestations brings together a range of artists, theorists and other practitioners to consider the state of education and learning in light of political struggle, institutional crisis and new media platforms. Focusing on creative experiments in education, Contestations seeks to instigate a conversation about the future direction of education that challenges existing academic models while examining possibilities for strategic intervention and self-organisation.

192 pp, b/w ills147 × 95 mm, paperbackSeptember 2013978-1-907414-23-7 £15

Civic City Cahier 6: Design In & Against the Neoliberal City

Jesko Fezer

Global cities (and their designs in particular) have rested on the paradigm of market-driven development, and have been interpreted as strategic spaces of neoliberal restructuring. Whilst they are now hit by the crisis of this ideology, the situation also offers the opportunity and necessity to imagine another, more social city. Yet designers continue to hold back criticism and proposals. It is, however, time to redefine the role of design for a social city and take action. What is the role of design in the production of urban space? Is it merely an element in the commodified colonisation of social spaces? Or are design and the visual and physical representations of urban issues themselves the key means by which a Civic City may be created from the ideological ruins of existing urban spaces? Jesko Fezer argues for a project of accommodating conflicts by design.

56 pp, two colours, ills190 × 115 mm, paperbackSeptember 2013978-1-907414-28-2£8

ebook also available on iBookstore and Amazon978-1-907414-33-6

Any Part, Any FormRadim Peško

Any Part, Any Form is a follow-up to London-based graphic designer Radim Peško’s Informal Meetings (2010), a collection of photographs made during travels and wanderings to different places. In its any part and any form, this volume brings back found compositions and situations where seemingly unremarkable encounters between space, architecture and water suggest their own stories.

64 pp, colour, 225 × 165 mm, paperbackDecember 2013978-1-907414-34-3£10

All Possible FuturesEdited by Jon Sueda

Essays by Rachel Berger, Catherine de Smet and Emily McVarish.

All Possible Futures accompanies an exhibition that explores speculative work created by contemporary graphic designers. The scope of work encompasses everything from self-generated provocations, to experimental work created in parallel with client-based projects, to unique practices where commissions have been tackled with a high level of autonomy and critical investigation. The work highlights different levels of visibility and publicness within the graphic design process. Some projects were made for clients and exist in a ‘real world’ context, while others might otherwise have gone unnoticed: failed proposals, experiments, sketches, incomplete thoughts.

160 pp, 1 colour with colour ills195 × 125 mm, paperbackJanuary 2014978-1-907414-35-0c £20

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Ahali: An Anthology for Setting a SettingEdited by Can Altay

Contributions by Agency, Bik Van der Pol, Celine Condorelli, Chris Evans, Luca Frei, Mike Nelson, Nils Norman, Paul O’Neill

and others.

Ahali: An Anthology for Setting a Setting is a collection of selected articles from current and previous contributions to Ahali, a journal by artist Can Altay. ‘Ahali’ in Turkish refers to a community defined through contingency without a defined or expressed commonality other than being together. The contents of each issue of the journal are composed of invited contributions. Titles include: Support, Control, and Letting Go; Co-habitation and Parasitical Practice; Locatedness (and Education?); Recycling and Reconfiguration / Sustainable Excess; and Forecasting Broken Pasts.

174 pp, b/w ills, 210 × 148 mm, paperbackAugust 2013978-1-907414-26-8£15

Public Occasion Agency 1–22Edited by Jan Nauta & Scrap Marshall

Essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Shumon Basar, Mark Campbell, Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange,

Henderson Downing, David Greene, Samantha Hardingham, Ingrid Schröder,

Nicholas Simcik Arese, Silvana Taher, Tom Vandeputte and Carlos Villanueva Brandt

POA 1–22 is part of the ongoing archive of activities conducted by the independent event bureau Public Occasion Agency (POA), founded by Jan Nauta and Scrap Marshall at the Architectural Association in 2009. The book is a collection of fragmented documents: previews, photographs, ephemera, reviews, reflections and opinions collated from the first twenty-two POA events. Critical and inquisitive, personal and probing contributions from a variety of authors across fields and disciplines and with differing agendas, here propose a withdrawal from idle commentary and encourage more productive forms of participation.

122 pp, two colour, b/w ills 220 × 140 mm, paperback, comb bindingOctober 2012978-1-907414-21-3£15

Backlist 54

20/20: Editorial Takes On Architectural Discourse 276 pp, paperback, 2011 978-1-907896-00-2 £10

311 Methods144 pp, paperback, 2009978-1-902902-78-4£15

A Right To Difference176 pp, paperback, 2004978-1-902902-36-4£10

Alejandro de la Sota112 pp, paperback, 1997978-1-870890-74-8£10

An Atlas of Fabrication96 pp, paperback, 2009978-1-902902-75-3£12.50

Architecture On Display:On the History of the Venice Biennale of Architecture 208 pp, paperback, 2010978-1-902902-96-8£7.50

Articulated Grounds160 pp, paperback, 2009 978-1-902902-71-5£15

Before Object, After Image228 pp, paperback, 2006978-1-902902-55-5£20

Berlin Free University 144 pp, paperback, 1999978-1-870890-76-2£10

Beyond Entropy: When Energy Becomes Form 172 pp, hardcover, 2011 978-1-907896-06-4 £15

Beyond The Minimal 96 pp, paperback, 1998978-1-870890-83-0£10

Bodyline42 pp, paperback, 2006978-1-902902-46-3£10

Cities From Zero 128 pp, paperback, 2007978-1-902902-60-9£15

Corporate Fields264 pp, hardcover, 2005978-1-902902-41-8£20

Diamond Vaults72 pp, paperback, 2005978-1-902902-47-0£10

Do Android Crows Fly Over The Skies of an Electronic Tokyo? 72 pp, paperback, 2001978-1-902902-07-4£8

DRL TEN: A Design Research Compendium388 pp, hardcover, 2008978-1-902902-65-4£30

Enabling:The Work of Minimaforms 208 pp, paperback, 2010978-1-902902-86-9£22.50

First Works160 pp, paperback, 2009978-1-902902-81-4£12

Four Conversations On the Architecture of Discourse192 pp, paperback, 2011978-1-907896-19-4£7.50

Glass Ramps/Glass Wall Deviations From the Normative96 pp, paperback, 2001978-1-902902-00-5£8

Imprint of India60 pp, paperback, 1995978-1-870890-49-6£10

L.A.W.U.N. Project #19280 pp, hardcover, 2008978-1-902902-66-1£40

Le Corbusier & the Architecture of Reinvention176 pp, paperback, 2003 978-1-902902-29-6£15

Mathematical Form96 pp, paperback, 2006978-1-902902-37-1£15

Morphogenesis of Flux Structure 112 pp, paperback, 2007978-1-902902-57-9£15

One Million Acres and No Zoning 272 pp, hardcover, 2011 978-1-907896-04-0 £22

Reconstructing Space196 pp, paperback, 1999978-1-870890-98-4£10

Ruins of Modernity 72 pp, paperback, 1998978-1-870890-82-3£8

Shadowed192 pp, paperback, 2000978-1-902902-16-6£8

Sharp Words: Selected Essays of Dennis Sharp160 pp, paperback, 2012978-1-907896-07-1£25

Solar Energy and Housing DesignVol 1: Principles, Objectives, Guidelines176 pp, paperback, 1994978-1-870890-36-6£10Vol 2: Examples128 pp, paperback, 1994978-1-870890-37-3£10Set: 978-1-870890-45-8£15

Structure As Space304 pp, hardcover, 2006978-1-902902-01-2£30

The World of Madelon Vriesendorp278 pp, hardcover, 2008978-1-902902-63-0£26.50

Translations From Drawing to Building and Other Essays296 pp, paperback, 1997978-1-870890-68-7£15

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